Desktop Publishing

If you use desktop publishing applications such as Adobe™ InDesign to add special formatting to your reports, you can use CDM to identify the content that you want to format in a certain way in the output for your desktop publishing application.

Important: The functionality for desktop publishing applications such as Adobe™ InDesign is beyond the scope of this guide. For more information, see the appropriate documentation or online help.

For Excel objects, you must tag specific content for your desktop publishing application. For Word objects, automatic Word generation can be used. You can go to Administration > Resources > Desktop Publishing Styles to import styles from desktop publishing applications such as Adobe InDesign or manually create new styles. This is applicable for all styles: paragraph, character, list, table, and so on.

Report content can be generated so that it can be used in desktop publishing tools. The content is encapsulated in XML tags that are named according to the content style. The generated XML file can then be imported into a desktop publishing application and the styles can be automatically mapped using their names.